Clarence Leon Brown
Fact about Clarence Brown:
Tied with Robert Altman and Alfred Hitchcock for the most nominations for best director (5) at the academy awards without a single win. Martin Scorsese had been part or this group before his win for the Departed on his 6th nomination.
Clarence Brown Overview:
Director, Clarence Brown, was born Clarence Leon Brown on May 10, 1890 in Clinton, MA.
He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.
Although Brown was nominated for five Oscars, he never won a competitive Academy Award.
Brown's Top rated movies at Classic Movie Hub are: The Rains Came, Chained, A Woman of Affairs, Song of Love, Idiot's Delight, The Eagle, Edison, the Man, National Velvet, Angels in the Outfield and Flesh and the Devil.
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Brown died at the age of 97 on Aug 17, 1987 in Santa Monica, CA . Clarence Brown was laid to rest in Forest Lawn (Glendale) Cemetery in Glendale, CA.
Clarence Brown Biography:
Clarence Brown (May 10, 1890 - August 17, 1987) was an American film director.
Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was 11. He attended Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee, both in Knoxville, Tennessee, graduating from the university at the age of 19 with two degrees in engineering. An early fascination in automobiles led Brown to a job with the Stevens-Duryea Company, then to his own Brown Motor Car Company in Alabama. He later abandoned the car dealership after developing an interest in motion pictures around 1913. He was hired by the Peerless Studio at Fort Lee, New Jersey, and became an assistant to the French-born director Maurice Tourneur.
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